Reviews of Mawal Garden

Beautiful Lebanese restaurant, with delicious and varied menu. I especially love the lamb and chicken shawarma, very tender and juicy meat.The shisha lounge is big and cozy, with many flavours to choose from.The customer service is friendly and attentive, lovely staff working here.Will be back again, when in the area.

Best place for chicken shawarma/falafel wraps in Hounslow. Last night had Chicken Cube Wrap with extra spicy tasted heavenly. Recently had a Boneless baby chicken with Chips and Salad. I should say it is one of the best next to the wraps and a recent favourite. Very friendly staff and good customer service. You get an additional 10% off when you go for a takeaway.

Great food. Great Shisha. Brilliant atmosphere. Beautiful, spacious shisha lounge out the back. The staff are on point, always taking care of you. Best Lebanese food / shisha bar in the area. I drive over an hour to come here because I know the high quality you’ll get at a good price. 🥇😎 been to many other shisha bars, they do not compare. Thank you Mawal Garden. Always on point 👌🏼

We went here last night with our friends for the first time and the shisha was amazing, any issues we had with it were sorted out straight away and the customer service was outstanding. The gentleman graciously even offer to change the flavour on one of our pipes that wasn’t great. Shisha places are either great ambiance OR great shisha never both. So, to find amazing atmosphere, shisha and customer service was amazing! We will definitely be back! Thank you so much for giving us such a great experience yesterday:)

Restaurant has very good ambiance, and plenty of seating options especially if you want to do shisha. The shisha recommendations by staff are helpful but we found the shisha to be a bit too mild after only 25mins. The food however was fantastic, would highly recommend the mixed grill, spicy Turkish sausage and Baba ganoush with fresh bread. We really enjoyed our meal and it came out promptly. This place does not serve alcohol but does have a range of milkshakes, juices and tea (no morrocon tea unfortunately).

Loved the food, decorarion could be better. We have visited this place after many years, simply because we wanted to have lebanese food somewhere close by while in Hounslow. But what a find! Price is great, food is delicious. Would love to visit again. What could be improved? - decor! Need overhaul big time.

Stumbled upon this place yesterday and what a gem! Lovely rustic/authentic decor, great chilled out vibe. Service was impeccable, the complimentary mint tea and baklava a great touch. Food, drinks and shisha came to a total of £128 for 5 people which I think is very reasonable! Food overall was good! Only little niggles was regarding chips- the meals only came with approx 6 chips which felt abit ‘stingy’. I ordered the lamb roast, which was lamb shank off the bone it was amazingly cooked, melt in mouth and beautifully seasoned with a generous amount of rice The mixed grill was also well cooked and seasoned. My sis in law ordered the lamb shank and again it was well cooked, it had a generous amount of rice on the side; however, my sis in law wanted chips and for some reason they wouldn’t switch it out but we couldn’t understand why?! I usually don’t like chicken liver but theirs was so tasty!!! The shawarma unfortunately was the only let down as it was abit dry! Their fresh juices are divine - we tried both the lemonade and orange juice. They don’t do tap water which is always annoying. We ordered two shishas - lychee with frozen blueberry and cola with cherry. I’m a lightweight when it comes to shisha but could smoke this for hours with no coughing and without it burning out. Very decently priced too. If in the area we will most defo be back!

An excellent place for good food, tea / coffee and most amazing part was Sheesha in cozy environment during peak of English winter. Nothing can be better than this place in extreme cold weather to relax with Sheesha and friends, perhaps only place I could find with this indoor smoking facility in west London.

I've been going to merali Gardens since it opened and have to say, things have vastly improved over the years. The service has improved though still has room for improvement, the food may not be the best Lebanese food in all of London but is near enough the best Lebanese food you'll find in the area. The restaurant is nicely decorated but the real star of the show is the back part of the restaurant. The atmosphere is relaxing and friendly and the shisha offered is a good quality. They have a decent variety of flavours which have very fairly priced in comparison to other shisha places . the desserts aren't exactly something to write home about but can't really complain about anything else on the menu. This is a non-alcoholic establishment (which works fine for some) and the menu offered is fully halal.<br/><br/>You can see the attention and care that has gone into the shisha section as it has expanded and improved over the last few years . the outdoor area is actually fully covered which helps in bad weather. I will definitely continue to be a patron of this place and would recommend it to most

I'm going to say this from the outset: Mawal Gardens is one of my favourite places in London. The score of 3.5 reflects more towards what I believe would be pertinent for a first timer to judge it by, rather than a personal bias.<br/><br/>I've been in this place, in one way shape or form, for the last 13 years. Originally a pub called The Rifleman it had, in those days, a well earned reputation for being a safe haven for the under-age drinker (and the back-room meeting place for a the white supremacist organisation "Blood and Honour"). At only 14 years old when I would frequent the pub, I can vouch for this. <br/><br/>But times change, and the owners wanted to cash out. Over the years, the pub became a multiple different restaurants, all of which faced a similar fate; never quite shaking the stigma of the place it had been, and failing to make rent. All, that is, until now.<br/><br/>Mawal Gardens is a miniature Lebanese paradise in the otherwise lacklustre squalor that is the Hanworth Road, Hounslow. Most impressively (to me), a home to all smokers, with their legislation-bending , pseudo-indoor smoking area, their range of shisha flavours is quite incredible (£10-£25). Though not to everyone's taste, the thick, heady aromas wafting through the "outdoor" area creates a truly foreign ambience.  Inside, the restaurant is tidy and clean, if somewhat sparse, though the decorations do make up for this on a minor level.<br/><br/>The food, however, is what makes this place stand out from other shisha bars. With a menu consisting of authentic Lebanese classics, cooked to perfection, it would be difficult to give it higher praise. A few personal recommendations, and essential dishes for my partner and I, would be the sawda dajaj (chicken liver in pomegranite and lemon), labneh (a tart strained yoghurt), and arayes (meat filled unleavened bread).  The mint tea, too, is a work of art.<br/><br/>There are 3 downsides, as far as we've ever noticed. The first is that the service leaves something to be desired. Generally, calling out to a waiter as he passes is the best way to get someone's attention. However, there are many times we've been there where there just aren't enough staff. On the other hand, this isn't the place to attend when you're in a rush, so for once, the lack of speedy service isn't as big a drawback. One can just relax and wait with fresh tea and a smoke whilst the staff try to get their heads on straight.<br/><br/>The second problem is that they don't serve alcohol in any format. Catering to a predominantly Muslim crowd, it just isn't an option. So if you need a wine or beer with your meal, you just won't get one.<br/><br/>Finally: The outside area really is where the buzz is. All the atmosphere is focused in this area. The inside seating is generally dead, which is a shame, as I have visited with my parents who don't smoke and can't stand it. Thus, it would not be appropriate for them at all. They did, however, still love the food.

No Customer Service. Went to this restaurant by just seeing it from the outside without having read reviews. <br/>The food was not to die for. We ordered Hummus and salad as appetizers. It was ok. The hummus had a little to much oil on top of it. I have eaten better before. <br/>I ordered the fish, sea bass, which had absoloutly no flavor at all and the texture was like soggy, dont know how to describe it. <br/>I only tried the fish. We told the waiter about it, but nothing was done. It was not asked, if I would like to have something else or similar. And we still had to pay for the fish. <br/>My husband had chicken, which was also not to die for. <br/>The baklava was dry and no taste. Had only one pieve. <br/>Dont be fooled by the decoration,, service and food are not good.

Highly disappointed. Went there on Saturday for a family meal and the service was terrible. I told the waiter the starter was far too salty that I couldn't physically eat the dish and he said that he didn't make it, it comes in a jar! Ordered the main which was not fresh the rice was stale and the meat was tasteless. Really bad service and the atmosphere was flat. Would not recommend to anyone wanting a good night out. Truly awful

This restaurant is RUBBISH. Used to frequent this a lot when it was called El Shaam but since it changed it has gone down hill but the prices have increased. The waiter was extremely rude and they do not offer tap water. The food was tasteless and the mixed grill at £12 was overpriced with nothing on the plate. I would not recommend this place and will not be going back.

Friday 17 Dec. I took my wife to Mawal's resturant on Friday17 Dec. Unfortunatly we were not welcomed. Marwan has been asked to take us to the back room? We were not welcomed in the front?.<br/>I decided no to stay, no one bothered to ask us to stay.<br/>It is a shame to have this kind of attitude in London.People with this sort of behaviour should not allowed a licence to operate puplic places.

Terrible!!!. I noticed Mawal Garden when it finally opened its doors and thought to myself that it really looks the part, unfortunately the food does not match the decor. I ordered a takeaway but was disappointed with the quality of the food and threw most of it away. <br/>The fatoush salad was old and soggy. the humous tasted like humous from a can, the sort you would buy from a corner shop. The falafel were hard and had no taste. Finally the mix grill was also shameful. Its a real shame as the place certainly looks inviting but with food like this I wont be revisiting.

Mawal Garden. I went to this restaurant last night and the food was perfect. I have eaten in other Lebanese restaurants and in numerous restaurants in Israel where they serve this kind of food. The choice of food available on the menu is second to none and all the food we had was fresh, delicious and served in good sized portions. The lemon drink that my friend and I both had was very refreshing and complimented the meal perfectly. I will certainly go back and have no problem in recommending it to others.

A Real Disappointment !. I took my family to the new Mawal Garden restaurant in Hounslow expecting to find some Edgware Road quality Schwarma. I was confused when we were told it would take 15 minutes as we could see the meat going round. 45 minutes and two starving kids later there was still no sign of any schwarmas and a completely unsympathetic owner/manager was stating "what can I do" He let a family with young children walk away without any food having waited for 45 minutes and not even an apology! I believe good food and good customer service makes a restaurant successful not the decor!